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Security Industry Authority

My Lords, the Statement says that in April 2007 the Border and Immigration Agency identified the breach of security—and it was a severe breach if one of these people had access to the Prime Minister’s car. Later in the Statement we heard that Ministers were informed in June. The Secretary of State says that the reason she decided on 9 August that the lines to take were not good enough for the press office or Ministers to explain the situation was that the analysis of the issue had not been completed. If one is very generous and allows that the analysis required sufficient in-depth thinking, would it not have been right, if there had been a breach of security, for that to have been brought to the House for public accountability from April onwards? My noble friend Lady Miller has touched on that. We see in the memo from Mr Mark Williams, exposed in the Daily Mail, that where the text says the lines were not good enough for the press office or Ministers to use, the next sentence says that, "““the fact we are improving the system and the fact that prior to the SIA there was no system at all do not come across strongly enough””." Does that not suggest that it was not analysis that was causing the delay, but spin?